Trying To Figure Out What Site-Title and Site-Description Attributes Are Saying

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    cassiebanks · Member ·

    Blog: http://www.oldpeopleplayhearthstone.com

    Let me start by saying I’m in my early 60s and I loved HTML because it was VERY direct. Then CSS came along and my head exploded.

    I’m trying to fix a blog or find a theme that stays updated. I’m using the theme “Blue Planet,” but when I looked at the forum for it, not a lot of questions were getting answered there and the theme itself looks broken.

    When I try to change the font sizes of things an error comes up in the customization menu and it doesn’t list all the things I can change the font size on. I keep looking through themes that will work with plug-ins that SAY they can customize, but once I activate them they have the same errors. Even a header color I changed through “customization” seems lighter than the color I specified. So here I am trying to edit actual CSS code. It’s not going well.

    Can anyone please tell me what the purpose of the multiple margin attributes are? I’m simply trying to move my site name and description down a bit to a place in my header image where they can be seen without obstruction. I don’t understand what each margin PX is controlling. Here’s the code I’m trying to alter:

    .site-title {
    margin: 10px 10px 5px 10px ;
    font-size: 30px;
    line-height: 1.2;
    }
    .site-title a {
    color: #FFF;
    font-weight: normal;
    text-decoration: none;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #32698b;
    }
    .site-title a:hover {
    text-shadow: none;
    }

    .site-description {
    margin: 10px 10px 5px 10px ;
    font-style: italic;
    color: #FFF;
    text-shadow: 1px 1px #32698b;
    }

    I tried adding these definitions into the mix:

    position:absolute;
    bottom:20px;
    left:10px;

    It worked for about 5 minutes and then the whole thing went crazy (had different px attributes to move it lower). I thought I was editing the main stylesheet code, so I don’t know what was throwing it into teeny tiny columns, etc.

    I read through the articles about learning CSS that were recommended in the “Learning” post, but they were VERY general and didn’t seem to address this particular problem. I’d be happy to use a different theme, but all the two column, minimal image on top with title ones I like (Twenty Eleven, etc.) are old like me and puking all over themselves.

    I’m sure this is a very easy fix for anyone that understands CSS. Any help or suggestions for a more customizable theme would be appreciated. Thanks!

  • staff-mckluskey · Staff ·

    Hi there!

    I’m afraid that we won’t be able to help because your site is not hosted with WordPress.com. It is a site using the open-source WordPress software (from WordPress.org) but hosted with GoDaddy.

    Because WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two entirely separate entities, we cannot access files or data for sites hosted elsewhere; we can only assist with sites hosted on our servers. You can read more about the differences between WordPress.org software and WordPress.com here:
    https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/.

    You can look for help at the community forums here: https://wordpress.org/support/forums/.

    http://wordpress.org/support/ is also a great resource for sites using the open-source WordPress.org software.

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